Wrist rest support for a computer user

• US 5,228,655 A
• Filed: 04/24/1992
• Issued: 07/20/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: James M. Garcia, Louis A. Morrone, Robert S. Smith
• Original Assignee: James M. Garcia, Louis A. Morrone, Robert S. Smith
• Inventors: Morrone, Louis A., Garcia, James M., Smith, Robert S.
• Primary Examiner(s): CHIN SHUE, ALVIN C
• Application Number:
  US07/873,468
• Time in Patent Office: 452 Days
• Field of Search: 248/118, 248/118.1, 248/118.3, 248/118.5, 248/918, 248/345.1, 400/715, 279/219, 279/220, 279/225, 279/218, 279/229, 5/636, 5/630, 5/646, 5/419
• US Class Current: 248/118
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 21/0371 Platforms for supporting wrists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0395 Mouse pads
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/918 Ancillary device support associated with a video display screen

Abstract

A wrist rest support for supporting a users wrist when he is performing tasks involving repetitive motion with the hands and fingers such as operating a computer keyboard or computer mouse which includes a base pad that is positioned partially under the keyboard and includes a section extending away from the keyboard that has a top surface above the level of the keys for supporting the wrists. The pad features an antistatic fabric lamisection that is separable from a base section when it is desired to substitute another riser section of different dimensions.

Claims

1. A method for relieving repetitive motion stress on wrists of a user while using a device on a work station wherein using said device requires repetitive motion of the fingers and hands, said devices including a keyboard, mouse of a computer and laptop computer, said method including the steps:

positioning on a surface of said work station a relief means including a resilient slab having a substantially parallelopiped shape with an elongated length and elongated edge, a width and a height, a fabric wrapped around said edge and folded back over said fabric thereby forming a device support section of said relieving means comprising two layers of said fabric and a wrist support section of said relieving means comprising fabric wrapped around said resilient slab with said edge distal from said device support section and wherein said height has a value selected to positon said wrists above said device when said device is positioned on said device support section and said wrists are supported on said wrist support section;

positioning said device on said device support section;

positioning user'"'"'s wrists on said wrist support section;

using said device.

2. A method as in claim 1 wherein said fabric is antistatic.

3. A method as in claim 1 wherein said edge is bevelled.

4. A method as in claim 1 wherein said two layers include a top layer having a top surface which contacts said device and a bottom layer having a bottom surface which contacts said work surface and said device support section comprises a resilient pad in contact with a surface of said top layer opposite said top surface.

5. A method as in claim 4 wherein said pad is plastic foam.

6. A method as in claim 4 wherein said work surface includes a surface of an extension from a work table top and has a ledge and said pad has a shape configured to conform to said surface of said extension with said ledge.